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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Daniel 12:2 → Isaiah 26:19

Allusion

Later text

Daniel 12:2BSB

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Earlier text

Isaiah 26:19BSB

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

Significance

Both texts share the imagery of the dead rising from the עָפָר (aphar, "dust") of the earth. Isaiah 26:19 declares "Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!" Daniel 12:2 echoes this with "many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake" (יָקִיצוּ, yaqitsu, "will awake"), using related vocabulary of sleep, dust, and awakening. Daniel develops Isaiah's vision by introducing a dual outcome -- "some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt" -- which Isaiah's text does not specify. This represents the most explicit OT development of bodily resurrection, with Daniel building on Isaiah's earlier promise to articulate a differentiated eschatological judgment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Raising the Dead (Lazarus and the Life-Giver) Trajectory Table